[Orgmode] Re: Wow -- adding images to an org file

[Baoqiu Cui]

Hi Carsten,

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> On May 12, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Baoqiu Cui wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> I like the idea of inline image display too, but hit the similar
>> problems.  After reading the code in org.el, I found that the inline
>> image file link has to start with either "file:" or "./".
>>
>> For example, the following two links are OK:
>>
>>   [[file:~/images/myImage.png]]
>>   [[./figures/org-mode-unicorn.svg]]
>>
>> but the following two are not:
>>
>>   [[Screenshot.png]]
>
> This one I do not want to support, because it limits what other things
> we
> can do with links.
>
>>   [[~/images/myImage.png]]
>
> This one on the other hand should be supported, I like that.  Can you
> please modify the patch accordingly?  I believe this will also require
> corresponding changes in the exporter(s) somewhere...

OK, I modified the patch a little bit and came up with a version (see
below) that can handle the following 7 cases.  Please check if it looks
good to you.  I don't see any needed exporter changes so far...

------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Test Inline Images

1. [[file:~/Org/GNU.png]]
2. [[file:GNU.png]]
3. [[./figures/GNU.png]]
4. [[../tmp/figures/GNU.png]]
5. [[~/Org/GNU.png]]
6. [[~bcui/Org/GNU.png]]
7. [[/tmp/GNU.png]]
------------------------------------------------------------------------

diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 0381a26..51230b3 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -15502,12 +15502,14 @@ with a description part will be inlined."
   (interactive "P")
   (org-remove-inline-images)
   (goto-char (point-min))
-  (let ((re (concat "\\[\\[\\(file:\\|\\./\\)\\(~?" "[-+./_0-9a-zA-Z]+"
+  (let ((re (concat 
"\\[\\[\\(\\(file:\\)\\|\\([./~]\\)\\)\\([-+~./_0-9a-zA-Z]+"
                    (substring (org-image-file-name-regexp) 0 -2)
                    "\\)\\]" (if include-linked "" "\\]")))
        file ov)
   (while (re-search-forward re nil t)
-    (setq file (expand-file-name (match-string 2)))
+    (setq file (expand-file-name
+               (concat (or (match-string 3) "")
+                       (match-string 4))))
     (when (file-exists-p file)
       (setq ov (make-overlay (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
       (overlay-put ov 'display (create-image file))

Thanks,

-- 
Baoqiu